Nintendo of Japan Announces Pokemon Black/White, also Speculation Thread

[Pooky]

What's this? You think I don't play first-gen Pokemon?

When did I ever say that o.O

[CodeBrain]

...And then my Mewtwo's when you're done.

mewtwo is genderless XD

I understand what you meant though <_>

[Aerowyn]

When did I ever say that o.O

I guess I interpreted what you said wrong. Sorry about that!!!

But you know, I can't even THINK of a 1st gen pokemon that was "worthless" (besides, you know, Magikarp, which turned into a completely AWESOME pokemon). I don't often see people who use level 100 Jynx or Mr. Mime, but even so, they are pretty good pokemon. Pokemon like Wormadam fucking suck. o__O

[sevlag]

as for bug types being worthless the lvl 100 beedrill i have on my old red cart would like to have a word with you

but yeah the new pokemon look god awful

oh and the starters apperantly have fan names:

the grass type is nicknamed "smugleaf" for obvious reasons
the water type is nicknamed "wotter"
theres a debate over the nickname for the firepig, seems to be a combination of bar-b-que and hog

anyways the game needs more ghost/dark types like sable eye since NOTHING was super effective against it

[Aerowyn]

anyways the game needs more ghost/dark types like sable eye since NOTHING was super effective against it

That means there's something WRONG. I always thought Psychic was strong to Ghost (at least in my experience it was), but then Ghost is somehow super effective against Psychic and so is Dark...

I hate when they apply contradictory pokemon types. Dark pokemon are only really weak to bug and fighting type pokemon, but fighting-type pokemon have no effect on ghost pokemon. :\ I have never entertained the notion of a dark or ghost pokemon in my party but I've been considering it lately. I pick pokemon based on appearance first >3<; sableye is just too ugly for my party lmao.

I might just invest in that though.... even if he is ugly, I might just take a pokemon with no known weakness, haha.

[sevlag]

BTW been doing somethin with my pokemon ROMs called "nuzlocking" basically pokemon hard mode, if they faint its treated as they die and you cant use that pokemon anymore, and you MUST catch the FIRST pokemon encountered in an area (duplicates don't count)

makes it interesting and makes you use pokemon you'd never though you'd use

[Inferno]

BTW been doing somethin with my pokemon ROMs called "nuzlocking" basically pokemon hard mode, if they faint its treated as they die and you cant use that pokemon anymore, and you MUST catch the FIRST pokemon encountered in an area (duplicates don't count)

makes it interesting and makes you use pokemon you'd never though you'd use

I'm half way through ruby in nuzlocke. I lost my gyrados and my dustox but that's all. I hate critcal hits. Hate. Hate. Hate.

[sevlag]

I'm half way through ruby in nuzlocke. I lost my gyrados and my dustox but that's all. I hate critcal hits. Hate. Hate. Hate.

dont we all hate crits, lost my leaf green team sans blastoise (named megaman) during the fight against my rival

[English Mobster]

The look at the fire pig's face.
Then look at this:
You will never unsee what you have seen.
E:


(Also, just beat my Pearl Nuzlocke. T'was awesome. Cynthia wiped all of my dudes out except for my starter and Palkia, and I had to have a massive funeral.)

[Kornman00]

And new pokemon mean I get to re-think my pokemon party. OH, GOODIE. :P

The last PK game I played (well, playing, went back to it about a week ago out of boredom) is Sapphire. I don't get why they never worked on the ingame usability. Like, if someone is trying to give you a fucking goatdamn pokemon and you obviously have 6 fucking fruitcakes in your fruitcake basket, why can't the game magically send that shit to Someone's Box? FFS, it has magical pokemen from outer space, I'm sure they can have magical tricorders which transmit pokeballs via wifi or some shit. Same thing with items, if I can't receive or pick one up because my bag is already full, why the fuck not auto or ask to send that shit to my PC?

Then there's the pokemon party system. What. A. Joke. Maybe the Japanese should play some FPS or something, learn about load outs. Gee, I wonder how much better it would be if I could instead create parties (plural) which I can switch in and out instead of depositing all but one fruitcake into the e-fruit basket, then withdrawing the 5 I want, then going back and depositing that last one and withdrawing the 6th I wanted? The party system really could have been designed better, even as early as GEN2

Instead I get more fucking fruit (500 now? WTFC) to waste away in my (e-)baskets, and shit like pokeman competitions. Fuck newer versions of this franchise. Also, fuck the asshole who made it so I can only get Alakazam after a trade. Fuck them, fuck them, fuck them. Talk about loss of direction